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Post by blackjack on Apr 17, 2016 16:00:27 GMT -6
Football factories, unfair recruiting, good coaching bad coaching, not enough competitive players, etc all reasons for 10 plus years of fussing, cussing, meetings, commissioners or whatever........ well how about this.....
A select and non select based on the idea of the old division I division II college format
Select division - Power schools
If you do not want a divided system, play in this division- public, private, charter whatever. If you want to play the "best", don't mind the above mentioned arguments, etc you chose to play in the Select division. Its the way it was 10-12 years ago. plus you get to play in the super dome for the select state championships.
Non Select division - Second tier schools
If your school is small, don't have many athletes, struggle year in and year out, have issues with "football factories" beating you by 40 or more, choose the non select division. Like schools will be matched together and have comparable success. State championships will be played at highest seeded team remaining. Or assuming there would be fewer in this division a shorter playoff and could play in the dome the weekend/Saturday before the select championships.
This split should, based on the positions of everyone on here, make everybody happy. The reasons for the split are solved.
For all you football gurus, now you may debate the pros and cons and work out the specifics then pass the final version to the LHSAA
The rest can fuss and cuss and tell the forum the reasons this won't work.
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Post by Rick James on Apr 17, 2016 17:53:35 GMT -6
so 10 brackets? Not many people will be in favor of more than 9 championships.
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Post by chalmetteowl on Apr 17, 2016 18:26:17 GMT -6
you can't let schools choose their division... they'll always choose the path of least resistance
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Post by blackjack on Apr 17, 2016 21:08:41 GMT -6
you can't let schools choose their division... they'll always choose the path of least resistance Maybe so but you will know where the truth lies with the schools. " oh we didn't vote for the split we don't have a problem with privates" Scenario one - most schools play in the select division so they can play in a state championship in the dome. This is more of a legitimate championship. "To be the best you play the best" All others who opt for the lesser division would be minimal and maybe on 2-3 classes would exist. Scenario two - most schools opt to stay in lesser league to avoid the bigger more successful programs. So you have maybe two upper divisions. They get the prime Saturday games at the dome. Along the lines of the proposed 6-A idea couple of years ago. The idea is to see who really don't mind playing as it used to be and who is running scared- per se. Something has to be better than what's going on.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 18, 2016 7:03:29 GMT -6
you can't let schools choose their division... they'll always choose the path of least resistance Maybe so but you will know where the truth lies with the schools. " oh we didn't vote for the split we don't have a problem with privates" Scenario one - most schools play in the select division so they can play in a state championship in the dome. This is more of a legitimate championship. "To be the best you play the best" All others who opt for the lesser division would be minimal and maybe on 2-3 classes would exist. Scenario two - most schools opt to stay in lesser league to avoid the bigger more successful programs. So you have maybe two upper divisions. They get the prime Saturday games at the dome. Along the lines of the proposed 6-A idea couple of years ago. The idea is to see who really don't mind playing as it used to be and who is running scared- per se. Something has to be better than what's going on. Conceptually, I like it. First Tier, Second Tier.........I can think of a few BETTER names for it.........lol It would indeed make people crap, or get off the pot! LETS DO IT!!! (By the way, playing in the Superdome is not NEARLY the leverage people think it is. That is just more LHSAA rhetoric. Basketball, Baseball, Softball, every other sport, do not play in the professional versions of their venues and it works just fine!
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